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| Sheryl Crow – Safe And Sound Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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@[freckles555:54234] @[Kilroy412:54235] is WRONG. The Internet, actor's rep, or Crowe,or both, who this song is written about, can't completely scrub virtual history. Look at the comments by Freckles, and from 2 decades ago, vs Kilroy's more recent group, the oldest being 5 years ago.
It's 2025. I'm doubling down. Here's why. I recently saw the old film K-PAX, again, and this song plays in the credits. Reminded of who and why it was written, I did a Google search. But all references to Crowe writing about a "friend's near unaliving", disappeared. Is it the Mandela Effect, or early dementia? So when I ran into a friend the same age as me the other day, I asked if he remembered the song "Safe and Sound". "Oh yeah. That was the song about Owen Wilson's unalive attempt."
The theme perfectly aligns with the lyrics. K-PAX isn't a banal film about sad, romantic relationships that don't work out, or it would've been at the end credits of Wilson's buddy, Vince Vaughn's "The Break Up".
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| Sheryl Crow – Safe And Sound Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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This song is about witnessing a person you love slipping into madness. And ultimately losing them to physical or psychic (cationic) suicide. I don\'t know if it was written for the film, K-PAX, with that very theme, or was used. \n“If only you could hang on through the night” - the hours left unobserved, whether in hospital, or the watcher sleeps. \nThe witness empathizes|- I don’t blame you for quitting, a sense of beauty in release (pain is over, expectations gone). \nThe rest of the lyrics are a plea and bargain to the person, and talking to themselves (guilt). \nWhat\'s beautiful about this song is it applies to any type of relationship with a suicidal person, not just a lover. \nWhether Familial, parental, friend, or relationship dynamic the process is the same. “Why didn\'t I know? What could I have done/changed? Why can\'t I reach you? If only I loved you more”.... \n\nI\'ve traveled to the edge of madness myself in the past. I understand the lyrics on a profound level. The pressure, the pain, sadness, existential loneliness, and the exhaustion of fighting, over & over & over eventually sending one to the precipice. The tipping point goes, and a release happens. All sanity, rational thought, fall over the edge, and break down. \nNot all make their way back |
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